1e's giants included orcs, gnolls, goblins, and kobolds.rather go 1e and leave their favoured enemy as Giants.(though there's a case for Undead, to be fair)
That's sociology and psychology then.
Dwarves carve rocks and stones.Maybe; I'm concerned that would eat into the Dwarves' niche as being stone-masters.
Rangers grind up rocks and stones to make smoke bombs, explosives, and quick cement.
And (censored)ing lost and got his butt handed to him.Jon Snow fought his share of supernaturals, didn't he? As did Aragorn? And if you're referring to their use of magic items, I've no issue with any class having those
It's the premier example of the nonmagical ranger fighting supernaturals without magic nor science.
Rangers use druidic,, priest, wizard, and fey magic because that is the life science, psychology, and forensics of Old School and New School D&D.